Climate averages 1991–2020

Asheville weather
in January.

A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 7.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -2.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 96 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Asheville: daytime highs average 7.1°C and nights cool to about -2.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 96 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 03 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gastonia (129 km away). In January its highs average 9.6°C, 2.5°C warmer than Asheville, with 98 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Asheville ranks joint 294th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 409th of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Asheville is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.1°C to 9.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 96 mm to 84 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Asheville climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Asheville, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	7.1°C-2.6°C	-2.6°C	96	10.1	10.010 h
February	9.3°C-1.0°C	-1.0°C	84	9.4	10.911 h
March	13.3°C2.4°C	2.4°C	106	11.2	11.912 h
April	18.6°C6.9°C	6.9°C	93	10.1	13.113 h
May	22.3°C11.7°C	11.7°C	90	11.5	14.014 h
June	26.0°C16.1°C	16.1°C	95	14.0	14.515 h
July	27.8°C18.1°C	18.1°C	99	15.6	14.314 h
August	27.1°C17.7°C	17.7°C	105	14.3	13.514 h
September	24.2°C14.8°C	14.8°C	95	9.6	12.412 h
October	18.9°C8.5°C	8.5°C	79	7.4	11.311 h
November	13.0°C2.7°C	2.7°C	85	8.0	10.310 h
December	8.6°C-0.7°C	-0.7°C	89	8.9	9.810 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Asheville

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Asheville) is explained once on the Asheville year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.